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| (...) Unfortunately, this is being postponed until either later today or early next week. There's still one more software issue to resolve on the new hardware. I'll try to make an announcement today if we go forward today, but be prepared for an (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Call for curator requests
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| If there are any outstanding curatorship requests, please e-mail me at <todd@lugnet.com> and I'll try to get you set up this weekend after the server upgrade. I set up a couple earlier this week but I think there are still others that managed to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.curators) !
| | | | | Blue 8-wide pickup
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| This MOC is based on my neighbor Rick Balla's classic Dodge pickup he & his dad Elwin refurbished 2-3 years ago. (URL) pic was taken at an annual classic car show at Fort #4 in Charlestown, NH, explaining the costumes. I thought I saw a similar MOC (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc)
| | | | | New Technic Sets & Bulk Discounts on S@H
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| [DELURK] I've not been keeping a close eye on Lugnet recently, so sorry if any of this has been announced by others already, but I've just spotted the new Technic sets on sale at S@H - at a glance, UK and Germany have them on sale now, so I guess (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Scheduled downtime Thursday, March 6, 2003
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| The lugnet.com server will be taken off-line for approximately two hours on Thursday, March 6, 2003 for a software and hardware upgrade. --> Going down at: 10:00AM EST (that's 10 o'clock a.m. New York time) <-- The outage may be as short as one hour (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general) !!
| | | | | My son's MOC: Duplo Spaceship!
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| My 8 year old son made one awesome Duplo Space ship the other day. He tells me it is the fastest ship that has ever been made and does its part to protect the universe from alien life forms. It is made out of 100% Lego Duplo parts and if you have (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | New MOC: Working Handcar!
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| Hi All! Joe Comeau and I have spent the last two weeks collaborating on a little project, and we are now proud to present … The Handcar! (URL) overall gallery can be seen here (after moderation): (URL) are movie clips of the car in action, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
| | | | | US S@H Specials, Mar 5 - 11, 2003
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| (URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts) Baby/Duplo/Primo 2981 Pooh's Corner $ 5.99 $ 3.00 System 3410 Soccer Field Expander $14.99 $ 7.50 Galidor 8312 Jens $ 4.99 $ 2.50 Scala 3158 Chris Doll $ 8.99 $ 4.50 3124 Indie Stable $49.99 $25.00 Bellville (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | MOTM/SOTM for February 2003
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| Do I ever hate the cold & flu season..... Anyway, here goes; MOTM is Cale Leiphart's "1949 John Deere Model A". This was actually a tough call. Cale's model tied with Carlos un apellido's Supercar model, so I had to be the tie-breaker. The supercar (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | | | MOCs: Micro Train plus more of the Woodhall Express
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| I recently made another 2-wide train. This one is a modern diesel train based on some 6-wide rolling stock found on BricksOnTheBrain.com. I gave this model away, but of course I took pics before I sent it off. The gallery includes images of the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.microscale)
| | | | | Brick Testament: First Glimpse of the Promised Land
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| Four new stories are now online at The Brick Testament: (URL) Rev. Brendan Powell Smith (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient) !
| | | | | Mega Port Block
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| Well, people, we face a tragic event... The Cool site of the week could very well be awarded to a megablock website :-( Yes, Port Block Yards and New Pacific, 2 different entries in the poll for the same website (!!!), are actually websites that use (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Ogel's Gyro Sub
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| Check out our latest MOC from our homepage, Ogel's Gyro Sub; (URL) latest secret weapon has been unveiled! Borrowed from Jon's G-Wing the concept for the cockpit. Just click on the thumbnails to get to the pics and your comments, critiques are (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc) !
| | | | | It's time to party at the Moonbase
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| Everyone at the Moonbase has to go somewhere to relax and party, right? The genesis of this project was at Brickswest 2003, where Derek Schin and I were hanging out at the Maniac shop, messing around with the parts bins. There were a bunch of those (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space) !!
| | | | | New newsgroups for Micro-scale building, Mosaics, and Sculpture
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| Three new newsgroups in the lugnet.build hierarchy have been created for the focused discussion of specialty building. Micro-scale building (as in "microfig" scale) is coming into its own in a big way, thanks in a large way recently to the efforts (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.admin.nntp) !
| | | | | A big day for the Building Instructions Portal
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| All, Today was a landmark day for the Building Instructions Portal...today we surpassed 100,000 click thrus! (URL) more than 100,000 occasions, a user of the B.I. Portal has searched for an instruction, clicked the link to that instruction, and then (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce) !
| | | | | Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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| Over the past few months I've been building a web service that will allow anyone to create their own mini web site for their MOCs. It's free, you can make unlimited pages, there are no annyoing ads or pop-ups, and it's easy -- you don't even need to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.general) !!
| | | | | MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
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| Hi, In case you missed it at the diner, or didn't make it to BW '03, (or a BayLTC pizza meeting) Ross showed the prototype Maglev vehicle and short "track" that he and I built. Eric Sophie was kind enough to snap and post a pic of it. Its at: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf) !
| | | | | Some fun fad MOC's
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| Greetings, I made these a while back when these fads were all the rage but never got around to photographing/posting them. In an effort to end the senseless civilian casualties caused by rogue HoverBike street racing, MoonBase law enforcement has (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space) !
| | | | | New Vehicles on Brickshelf
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| Greetings, Now that I have my LEGO-dedicated half of the basement rec room and see a light at the end of my seemingly endless parts sorting I've actually been building! I just posted my recently completed 1920's Fire Engine inspired by the 1929 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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